At the same time and in a different location, there are more people in Fan Xiaofan's room.
Fan Xiaoxian, Geng Shuai, Wu Li, Gao Ming, and Tian Zhengguang were all waiting eagerly, but after Wang Chao entered the door, everyone became energetic at the same time.
"The opponent came prepared as expected." Wang Chao said directly, "I tested it a little and asked Dragon Team what position he played. Dragon Team answered too quickly. It was obviously the answer that Coach Qin had told him a long time ago."
Fan Xiaofan asked, "Are there any other clues?"
"Everything else is meaningless." Wang Chao shook his head. "In the final analysis, we still have to analyze based on the actual situation, not based on Dragon Team's reaction."
He paused and said something similar to Qin Huachang: "We must first find out whether Dragon Team wants to arrest me or not?"
After everyone discussed it, the final result was: I don't want to.
"Dragon Team is seriously injured, and playing with you will be a big burden. The gains outweigh the losses. Although he won't compete internationally until next month, he is older after all, and his recovery ability is much slower than Luo Jiu. If he fights you too fiercely, even if he wins, it will be a loss." Geng Shuai said.
"The reason why he did not avoid the game like Luo Jiu is because Liaoning Province Zhonggang's current performance is very poor, and his focus this year is on the international arena, so he will definitely miss many games. Therefore, in order to help the team score more points, he will definitely participate, but if he really plays against you and hits the critical moment, I think he will choose to temporarily avoid it and preserve his strength." Fan Xiaoxian said.
Wang Chao agrees.
For a character like Dragon Team, the victory or defeat of Super League is too inconsequential. There is no need for him to fight with himself.
Therefore, we still have to return to the final question: how many orders will Dragon Team place?
This question is very difficult to determine, because although the overall strength of the Chongqing Steel Club team is not strong, the three main players are all Special Class Athlete.
Dragon Team, the title of Special Class Athlete, needs no further explanation. As for the second single, Qi Hao, although he has never won a personal honor in an international competition, he was once beaten by Cai Guodong when he first debuted. is very optimistic about it, and he once won the first place in the World Table Tennis Championships internal pass. Therefore, he once participated in the World Table Tennis Championships team competition as a substitute, and won a gold medal with everyone.
So he is also Special Class Athlete.
The third order, Xue Hui, is even more bizarre.
This is a straight player who is very good at Penhold Backhand Loop. His backhand is much better than his forehand. Because his posture is very standard, his basic skills are very solid, and his height and weight are very reasonable, he was once widely promoted as the successor of Bai Feng.
And his results when he debuted were also very good. He once won four championships in Men's Singles, Men's Doubles, mixed doubles and men's team at a certain World Youth Championship. He was known as World Youth Championships four-time champion. He was famous and popular for a while.
But that was the end of it. After that, he went to the international arena and suffered repeated defeats. He rarely made it out of the qualifying rounds. Even if he occasionally entered the main draw, he was always in the first round. He was once shockingly reversed by a foreign player when he got five match points, which fully proved his shortcomings such as a bad mentality, poor brains, and slow start when playing.
He is the most typical one who starts high and goes low. His high start makes people think that he is a future Great Demon King candidate, but his subsequent low makes people think that he has been taken away.
So later he left the national team and joined Table Tennis Super League to play. He stayed at the Chongqing Steel Club for one or two years, but his results were always mediocre, proving that he was useless.
But he is still Special Class Athlete, because he is World Youth Championships four-time champion.
Therefore, Chongqing Steel's lineup is very flexible, and Dragon Team can even play three singles.
As for Spade Q, Wang Chao and Geng Shuai can flexibly allocate one order and two orders, while Wu Li is a certain three orders.
"So, does the other party guess that Wang Chao wants to touch Dragon Team?" Fan Xiaofan asked.
Wang Chao nodded. "Since Coach Qin is here, you should be able to guess it."
In fact, many of his actions in the past two months are quite obvious, especially in the game of forcing Luo Jiu to retreat, which gave him a "bare feet are not afraid of wearing shoes" momentum.
"Dragon Team has always played one order, because one order can steadily score two points. This has always been Chongqing Steel's strategy, and it is unbeatable." Fan Xiaofan said, "But if Dragon Team wants to avoid Wang Chao, then it will have to play two orders."
Lu Jia shook his head. "No, we are going to play a doubles game anyway, so it is better to play the second single than the third single. This is a 100% avoidance. After all, Wang Chao cannot play the third single at all."
Gao Ming shook his head. "The first and second singles are 100% avoidable. The first and third singles are likely to be encountered in the fourth or fifth singles game."
Fan Xiaoxian said, "Since we can analyze that Dragon Team will not place an order, will the other party do the opposite and simply exchange Dragon Team for another order, so that we can catch it short?"
Tian Zhengguang said, "I can't think of so many twists and turns, but I think if Dragon Team doesn't play singles, then he has to play doubles. But in their team's situation, with three forehand players, their strength is The gap is very obvious. 80% of the time, the doubles team cannot beat the combination of Wang Chao and Wu Li, so if Dragon Team values the team's victory more, then he can only play one single."
Even the most silent Wu Li couldn't help but interject. "In fact, it is easy to avoid Wang Chao when he plays three singles, because if Wang Chao plays one single, he will definitely play in the fourth game. After all, if he doesn't play in the fourth game, we will be directly defeated 1:3, so Dragon Team will just play three singles and choose the fifth game."
Everyone had different opinions, and even Wang Chao couldn't analyze the results. In the end, Fan Xiaofan had a sudden idea and came up with a strange trick. He said, "I heard that coach He Jingping has never beaten coach Qin Huachang in the coaching staff?"
Wang Chao nodded. "It seems so."
"That's not easy anymore." Fan Xiaofan clapped his hands. "Let's just call Coach He to help arrange the formation. No matter how he arranges it, we will do it for him."
So Wang Chao called He Jingping. After describing it, He Jingping thought hard and sent the formation information half an hour later: Geng Shuai has one single, Wang Chao has two singles, Wu Li has three singles, the fourth single is Geng Shuai, and the last single is Wu Li.
So everyone directly made magic changes: Wang Chao single, Geng Shuai second single, Wu Li third single, the fourth single single Wu Li came first, and Wang Chao played the last single.
So the lineup was completed, and everyone was happy. Only He Jingping was quite complacent in a hotel where Tianfu City was staying, feeling that his talent was finally recognized. He even called Spade Q remotely to ask for advice during the pre-game lineup.
He told this to Luo Jiu, who was busy preparing for the competition, as a show off, but Luo Jiu felt that something was wrong. He thought about it, but he couldn't figure out what kind of medicine Wang Chao was selling in the gourd. He was busy with his own competition, so he forgot about the matter.
At about the same time, everyone in Qin Huachang's room also came to the final conclusion.
The purpose of Qin Huachang is to get rid of all kinds of weird possibilities and point directly to the ultimate goal of the ace players of both sides.
The ultimate goal of Sun Tianlong is to suppress Wang Chao.
Wang Chao's ultimate goal is to slay the dragon and attain enlightenment. Even if he can't slay the dragon, he still has to pluck out a few dragon scales.
Isn't this obvious?
The greatest romance for a man is one-on-one.
If once is not enough, pick twice.
So Wang Chao will definitely choose two singles matches instead of one singles and one doubles match.
Because only singles can best prove one's strength, since Wang Chao wants to prove his strength to Cai Guodong, there is no reason to play doubles. After all, Olympic Games Men's Doubles's spot belongs to Sun Luo's partner 100%, and Wang Chao can't get in even if he sharpens his head.
Therefore, the order of Dragon Team is undoubtedly confirmed.
There is no need to worry about the second order and the third order. Just sort them by strength.
If Qi Hao can come back in time, then Qi Hao will play the second single and Xue Hui will play the third single. If Qi Hao actually breaks out and reaches the main draw of the Open, then Xue Hui will play the second single and a substitute will be used to play the third single.
So the key point still lies in the fourth and fifth games.
Which game will Dragon Team play?
In the end, it was Sun Tianlong who made the decision. "I think winning one game against Wang Chao is enough. It would not be good if the pressure is too harsh... I remember that Spade Q always lets Wang Chao play the fourth game, so I will play the fifth game this time."
So Chongqing Steel also completed its formation.
The next day, players from both teams trained in closed venues.
On the third day, the China Open qualifying round was officially over. Qi Hao proved once again that he was an outsider in foreign competition and failed to make it out of the qualifying round. He took the flight that afternoon to Jiangcheng City in despair.
So the roster of the Chongqing Steel Club was determined: the first single was Sun Tianlong, the second single was Qi Hao, the third single was Xue Hui, the fourth game was Xue Hui, and the fifth game was Sun Tianlong.
The night before the game, Fan Xiaofan was the host and invited all the players and coaches of both teams to have a meal together. The atmosphere was good and everyone was chatting and laughing. They didn't look like they were going to compete against each other tomorrow. Instead, they felt like "friendship first, competition second".
After returning home after dinner, the players from both teams coincidentally went online to search for the final list of the Open.
The results were not good.
In fact, looking at the qualifying rounds alone, Huaping's start this time was even worse than last month's Hong Kong Open. It can be said to be a direct avalanche.
All the Chinese players who participated in the qualifying round suffered an unprecedented defeat this time, and not one of them managed to survive.
Ma Angxing and Hu Buming, these two are named new generation Six Dragons. In fact, they lack more strength. They are potential stocks in themselves. They are for gaining knowledge. If they are eliminated, they will be eliminated. There is nothing wrong with that.
Qi Hao failed again, and no one blamed him, but it's hard to say whether there will be another chance in the future.
But in addition, the elimination of Lu Feiyang and Sun Zhongwen made the Huaping coaching staff furious.
Sun Zhongwen ranked second after National Second Team. Hong Kong Open failed to enter the main draw due to the qualifying group. The coaches expressed their understanding and gave him some comfort.
But this time, he was eliminated by a young player from the Peacock Country, ranked 97th in the world.
This is almost unbearable.
The defeat of Lu Feiyang was even more difficult for the coaching staff to accept. It is said that after Lu Feiyang was eliminated, Zhu Zeshi didn't say a word the whole afternoon, didn't eat a grain of rice, and was so angry that he went on a hunger strike.
The person who eliminated Lu Feiyang was Qiu Shang, a newly emerging young Chinese player from Germany.
In recent years, Huaping has actually fallen off the chain many times. However, at critical moments, someone stepped forward to turn the tide, so it has never caused serious consequences.
For example, in July last year, after Dragon Team unexpectedly lost power, Luo Jiu began to rise, and then Wang Chao continued to rise. Even though there were the rises of Pike and Hook, they were suppressed by Sun Tianlong and Luo Jiu.
Oman Open and the year-end finals, in fact, the world table tennis world has shown a certain tendency to thrive and masters emerge one after another. It is just because Huaping has two undefeated gods of war who hold them all down.
At the beginning of this year, Hong Kong Open and all the generals in Huaping broke the chain again. If Wang Chao hadn't turned the tide at the critical moment, Huaping would have been broken.
But now, Huaping once again showed huge wounds at the start of the match.
By this time, the remarks that Huaping was declining could no longer be suppressed by any method.
Even though there are still the invincible Sun Tianlong and Luo Jiu, countless people in the world table tennis circle have started to discuss them enthusiastically. All people in the industry believe that Hua Ping has finally reached the end of the road.
"This is not the first time, friends, the future of Huaping is really on hold!" German head coach Rohlskov, who has always been jealous of Huaping, couldn't wait to be interviewed. His attitude was very clear and unambiguous. "Their younger generation is not even as good as our European players!"
His words also have an allusion. As mentioned in the previous article, European players generally cannot usher in their golden period until they are thirty years old, so in terms of young players, Europe has always been weak. Sakura Country and Kimchi Country pay special attention to the rapid growth of young players. In youth competitions over the years, these two countries have always had a strong impact on Chinese table tennis.
But this time, Rohlskov has enough reasons to be proud.
Because the two players from Germany, Sissifield and Qiu Shang, both successfully made it out of the qualifying round. According to the European judgment of the golden period of table tennis players, both of them are teenagers.
Morad, a young player from Sweden, also made it out of the qualifying rounds.
In addition to the young players Sakura Country, Zhang Benkuang, who entered the main match directly, and the young player Kimchi Country, Li Zhengzhi, these are the four young players from the traditional table tennis powers who all met in the main match. Only the young player Lu Feiyang, who Huaping had high hopes for, fell behind.
In fact, England player Pike is 23 years old this year, and Brazilian player Hook is 22 years old this year. They are also teenagers.
Then came an extremely embarrassing scene for Huaping: all the young players in the main draw were from non-Chinese associations, and Huaping only had five veterans left to support them.
Perhaps the only fig leaf is Lin Zijun from Bay Island, but Bay Island Table Tennis Association is its own group and competes independently. Lin Zijun's achievements have nothing to do with the Chinese table tennis coaching staff.
As we all know, veterans represent the past, while only teenagers represent the future.
Mizutori Hato, who was watching the game from Sakura Country, couldn't hold back his bad words after all. He was interviewed again and asked a shocking sentence, "Where is the future of Huaping?"
Fortunately, he hadn't forgotten how he lost last month, so he added, "Just relying on one Wang Chao is not enough."